St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-13


chairman; J. A. Norton, Seneca, vice chair
man; J. K. Newcomer, Delaware, secretary
q. w. Meeker, Columbus, corresponding sec
retary, and s. A. Sarber, Columbus, treasurer
The National Civil Service Reform League
held its annual session at Newport, r. l..
George William Curtis was unanimously re-
elected president. In his annual address he
expressed disappointment at President Cleve-
lands course in regard to civil service reform
The local election in Portsmouth, n. H.,
was carried by the Democrats They elected
all the city officers.
1t is reported from Ottawa that an order
has been issued by the Dominion govern
ment releasing, on condition of their paying
nominal fine all the American fishing
schooners recently seized within the alleg ed
prescribed three-miIe limit. Developments
toward an amicable settlement of the fishery
troubles are daily being received by the Off
clals of the department. 1t is evident the
climax has been reached and that an ami
cable settlement of the question is an event
of the near future.
Secretary Fairchild has directed the antici-
patton of the interest on the public debt
with two per cent. rebate and invited pro-
posals for the sale of four and one-half per
cent. bonds for the sinking fund.
A telegram from Washington says the
Secretary of the Interior has declined to
recommend to the President the removal OF
the land offices now located at Waukeeny
and Garden City, Kan. Their removal was
protested against as being in the interest of
land syndicate.
The Treasury Department declares that un-
mounted photographs, collected as memen-
toes during a trip through Europe, are en-
titled to free entry under the tariff provision
for personal effects. The department also
decides that parts of books, issued perlodl-
cally, are not considered periodicals within
the meaning of the free list, but are subject
to duty at the rate of twenty-five per cent.
ad valorem under the provision for books,
pamphlets, etc.
A plague of sudden death is reported to be
raging in Nankin, China. People are dying
in every quarter, and there are many in
stances of very sudden deaths. People are
apparently well in the morning, and dead in
the afternoon.
Miss Josie Holmes, lately exchange clerk
of the Fidelity National Bank, of Cincinnati,
who was sent to jail in default of bail in the
sum of $4,000, on a charge of aiding and
abetting E. L. Harper in committing ottenses
against the national banking laws, has been
released on her own recognizances, upon the
recommendation of District Attorney Bur-
net 1t is understood that she has consented
to give the government the advantage of her
knowledge of the inside workings OF the
Fidelity Bank.
At a special meeting of the trustees Of the
New York Soldiers and Sailors Home, held
at Bath, the treasurer, Robie, was ousted his
accounts having been found $1,000 short.
His friends have made good the amount.
Jacob Miller, collector for Mintzer & Hol-
linger of Lancaster, Pa, is reported to have
disappeared, after embezzling several thou
sand dollars of his employers money.
Over 600 people have been drowned at
Chu Chou Flu, on the Wenchow river, in
China, by recent floods. The destruction of
growing crops has been immense.
Much damage was done in the vicinity Of
LlIulId IN. L %, ny d AcaSs sIo4Ah' AASSS
were uprooted, window glass was smashed,
and the crops were ruined. The total
damage is estimated at 800, 600
A severe storm has passed over Louisville.
Rain fell in torrents and large hail stones
covered the streets. A ferry wharf was
swept away and the boat blown over to the
other side of the river. Several coal barges
1nrnnfpd
and five persons were injured by lightning.
Near Homer, Mich, George Burton, aged
thirty-one years. being jealous, killed his
wife, wounded his mother-in-law and COM
mitted suicide.
There was an election fight in Manchester,
KY, growing out of dispute over colored
vote, in which A. J. Hooker was shot dead.
It is reported that the colored man was also
killed and his body thrown into creek.
The other whites were wounded.
Frank Howard, colored barber, shot and
killed Wesley Leland, also colored barber,
in the Iatters shop at New Brighton, Pa.
A convention of representative men from
the principal cities and towns of Florida
have formed an association for the encour-
agement of immigration to the State.
SIS. Poppoff, Chinese secretary to the Rus
sian legation in Pekin, has published
pamphlet on the population of China, in
which he says it is 3S2,O00,OOO, against
413, 100000 in 1912. He takes his statistics
from Chinese official sources.
Joseph R. Buchanan has been appointed
delegate to the Minneapolis convention of
the Knights of Labor by District Assembly
No. &c. of Denver, Col. Mr.. Buchanan is
very popular in the order and telegram
from Chicago says that a majority of the
labor papers of this country prophesy that
he is the man who will succeed 7. V. Pow
Derby as general master workman.
At a special meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce of Pittsburg, resolutions were
adopted inviting the President and Mrs.
Cleveland, on behalf of the people of
county, to visit that district
during their proposed Western tour. Com
mittees were appointed to arrange for their
reception.
Frank Mott and Havelock Irvine, aged re-
spectively ten and twelve years, were
drowned while bathing at Woodstock, New
Brunswick.
A terrific storm has passed south Of Knox
vile, in Toga county, Pa. Grain was lev